Police Blotter

Saturday

Oct 13, 2007 at 12:01 AM

Cedrick Decarlos Lyles, 29, of 170 Pinehill Circle was charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.

Lyles is accused of beating a 27-year-old woman, breaking her nose and chipping her tooth Aug. 7 because she wanted to visit Charlotte, N.C., with their son. The woman said Lyles punched her and threatened to kill her in front of the son, who is 5.

A man wearing a blue bandana over his face stole $300 during a robbery Friday at the Country Hearth Inn, 200 International Drive.

A female employee said the man approached her in the office at 5:40 a.m., presented a gun and demanded the money. Investigators determined the front office door appeared to have been forced open and a cash drawer pried open.

A 20-year-old man reported he was robbed at gunpoint inside his Bryant Road apartment about 9 p.m. Thursday.

The man said an acquaintance was in his apartment, with permission, when an argument ensued. He said the man pointed a black handgun in his face and stole $300 and a cell phone.

The robber and a woman who was in the residence at the time left after warning the resident not to call 911.

An armed robbery was reported at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the 300 block of Spruce Street.

Two men told officers they were accosted by two strangers in a newer-model white Suzuki four-door sedan. They were threatened with a handgun and revolver and robbed of about $160, a baseball cap, a cell phone and pair of earrings.